Despite making the least informative prior assumptions, the probability distribution (REF ) is surprisingly predictive. It favors vacua lying within deep funnels [1]}, [2]}, [3]}, wherein they can be accessed through a sequence of downward transitions from a large basin of parent vacua. This is akin to the folding funnels of proteins [4]}. As argued in Sec. , it also predicts that we exist at times much earlier than the mixing time for the landscape, confirming the intuition behind the early-time approach to eternal inflation [3]}. This implies, incidentally, that we are “normal" observers as opposed to Boltzmann brains [6]}, [7]}, [8]}, [9]}, [10]}, which are produced on exponentially longer time scales.
